IBM's Watson Technology

January
11, 2013
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract:

IBM's Watson captured the imagination of
over 34 million viewers when it beat the all time
champions of the US game show, Jeopardy!.To do so, it navigated the complexities of
human speech, churned through 200 million pages of unstructured data in less
than 3 seconds, and delivered a confidence based response, all while learning
and getting smarter with each outcome.But as impressive as this accomplishment was, it was only the
beginning.IBM is working with leading
organizations across industries to put Watson to work.Watson represents one of the world's first
steps into Cognitive Systems, a new era of computing. Join Rob Yates, Senior
Architect, IBM Watson Core Technology team in an engaging discussion of how
IBM Watson can fundamentally transform the way businesses and individuals
make decisions and how next generation systems will be designed.

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Rob Yates earned a BA and Masters Degrees from Cambridge University in '92 and
'93.He has twenty years
experience as a software engineer for Lotus Development Corporation
and IBM during the majority of his career.He has led many large software engineering products involving
different platform technologies.Rob
is currently the Senior Architect responsible for Watson Core Technology Run
Time, Performance, Tooling and User Interface.Among Rob's specialties are systems
performance, software as a service, collaboration application software, J2EE
and more recently Natural Language Process and Machine Learning.